Ebola: I'm dumbfounded...

[PCIntern]

12. All right...

step back a bit:

See, the other day I posted that I thought that it was more than a little ironic that all of this was taking place in Dallas for a variety of reasons AND I was pretty sure a priori that the so-called public health folk were going to screw this up in the short and possibly the long term. And I was excoriated at first for my opinion, people insulting me and praising the wonderful Dallas Presby System and then it turned out that my skepticism was well-founded.

And then there were all these posts arguing about the virulence of the disease and very few people here understand the nature of transmission of viral illness despite their backgrounds or experience. That's OK in and of itself: this is a lay message board. So what I was saying was, forget Ebola for a minute, let's look at common diseases and how they're transmitted and then I allowed the reader to extrapolate. You know, the phrase "very unlikely" does not apply when you have millions of individuals and quintillions of viral particles. I drew no conclusions in the post. I have some thoughts but they're just that: thoughts. Doesn't really matter what you or I think, it is only what the viral particle does that matters. People who want to argue can feel free to argue with it. Good luck.